The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship.
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to higher grades of being. The first fiat of Creation which went forth, doubtlessly ensured the perfect adaptation of animals to the surrounding media; and thus, whilst the geologist recognizes a beginning, he can see in the innumerable facts of the eye of the earliest crustacean, the same evidences of Omniscience as in the completion of the vertebrate form.
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 911 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.
I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.
. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing
I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.
In all honesty I think, sometimes with the LGBT community, if you look at anything else surrounding it, there's always been this oddness and sense of humor. I really appreciate that. It's kind of a hard world to take yourself too seriously. It's a good balance check. It's not serious all the time. I'm that way too, even though I write a lot of depressing music. A lot of times our shows are not very serious at all. We joke a lot and then we play a sad song and then we joke again.
The movement of abstract art. . . bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.
I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.
The things surrounding you in your home serve as subliminal reminders of you who are.
What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as the other was very similar to what we find in Australia, which is that the image of Islam is a constructed image in the West. We are starting from a point of view that Islam and Muslims - well Islam is a violent, misogynistic, hateful religion and that is where the debate always starts from - that presumption underlies the discourse.